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You might be underestimating the distance between stars in the galactic center...

• Crito 12y ago
  It isn't a great source, but this seems to suggest it would actually be pretty significant: > "Near the galactic center, the average distance between neighboring stars would be only 1000 AU (about a light-week). If the Sun were located within a parsec of the galactic center, there would be a million stars in our sky with apparent brightness greater than Sirius. The total starlight in the night sky would be about 200 times greater than the light of the full moon; you could easily read the newspaper at midnight, relying on starlight alone." http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~ryden/ast162_7/notes31.html http://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/~ryden/ast162_7/notes31....
• gambiting 12y ago
  Obviously this is not a perfect comparison, but even on Earth, if the night is cloudless, you are away from any cities, and the moon is not visible, the stars provide some light. Not bright enough to see clearly, but you can see a little bit, even with our weak human eyes. So I imagine that even on a planet without a star it wouldn't be 100% dark, there would be some light.